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Moving Your Meeting Amid Rising Reproductive Rights Concerns

Post Dobbs decision, the destinations where the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine can safely meet have dwindled to a select few. Here’s how the association has navigated increasingly tricky legal contracts, member dissonance and advocacy, and the difficult decision to move its meeting at the last minute.

What Event Sponsors Want

At a Lippman Connects Exhibitor Roundtable session, participants were given benchmarks to understand the new exhibitor landscape — and a simple checklist to help potential sponsors and exhibitors make the decision to invest in their shows.

Survey Explores Speaker and Planner Dynamics

The “2024 Speaking Industry Benchmark Report” offers insights into the current state of the relationship between planners and speakers — and how speaker selection factors into an event’s success.

Inside WorldatWork’s Speaker Coaching Program

WorldatWork’s Courtney Mesmer developed a speaker coaching program to improve the participant experience at her organization’s annual conference. That initiative not only transformed the conference but rippled throughout the organization.

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Who Is More Creative: Humans or Gen AI?

The thinking about generative AI so far has been that it is best at rote tasks and cannot compete with human ingenuity. But research from The Wharton School and Cornell University suggests otherwise.

What’s Keeping Women out of the Business Events C-Suite?

Women make up 70 percent of the global events industry workforce yet hold only 16 percent of the top management positions, according to a new research report. We talked to Business Events Sydney CEO Lyn Lewis- Smith, who spearheaded the report with the PCMA Foundation, about what can — and should — be done to help women climb the ladder.

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What’s in Store for the Events Industry in 2024?

Knowland and ConferenceDirect’s fourth annual “State of the Meetings Industry” report shines a light on planners’ challenges and opportunities, from cost containment to AI adoption.

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